Peter FitzSimons9:47 AM
Dr Ian Paterson's authority was as unimpeachable as his seeming integrity, a man whose piercing eyes were so powerful, so pervasive, he was known as "Snake". A glare from him could turn an errant boy, including this one, into a pillar of salt at a distance of 100 metres on a dark day.

Harriet Veitch
1:31 AM
Bobo Faulkner, who has died in England aged 73, had her ups and downs. From days when the longest trip she made was to the dole office, to international travel, from modelling to television, from England to Australia to America and back to England, she had a life constantly on the move.

Heath Aston7:40 PM
The mother of the first Australian to die in battle against Islamic State has spoken of her heartbreak in discovering her son was fighting for the Kurds in Syria at the same time as receiving the devastating news he had been killed on the frontline.

7:23 PM
Leonard Nimoy, who has died aged 83, was an obscure character actor in films and on television before achieving celebrity as the logical, emotionless alien Mr Spock in the 1960s television series Star Trek.

Julia Medew6:38 PM
Young children and people aged in their 20s are visiting Victorian public emergency departments in greater numbers than the elderly, a surprising new study that calls for more resources to better match demand has found.

Rick Feneley6:12 PM
King's headmaster Tim Hawkes has apologised to his school community and admitted he was stupidly insensitive to say he had “no regrets” about his actions almost 30 years ago at Knox Grammar, where he failed to report the sexual abuse of a Year 8 boarder.

Nicky Phillips
4:25 PM
Forget all the images you've seen in adult films and the 'lifelike' drawings scrawled on public bathrooms, there is now a scientific guide as to what constitutes an average penis size - and hopefully it will put some men at ease.

Paul Bibby4:20 PM
The medical corporation that manufactured thousands of faulty hip replacement implants was well aware that the poor design of the device was causing serious medical complications years before it took any action to recall them, a major class action has been told.

Jamie Freed
4:09 PM
The number of Australians heading overseas rose in the last three months of 2014 but at a rate below recent historical trends for the period, suggesting the lower dollar and weak confidence may be starting to hit foreign trips.

Steve Lillebuen
Police in Queensland have launched an investigation into an anonymous letter writer who sends racist, anti-Muslim propaganda to private, unlisted addresses across the country as fears grow the addresses were pulled from the electoral commission database.